The Kingdom of Jaén was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile

Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...

 from the time it was won from Muslim

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 rule in 1246 during the Reconquista

Reconquista

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until Javier de Burgos

Javier de Burgos

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' provincial

Provinces of Spain

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 division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" ("reino") in the second sense given by the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española

Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española

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: the Crown of Castile consisted of several such kingdoms. Know also as the "Santo Reino" ("Holy Kingdom"), its territory coincided roughly with the present-day province

Provinces of Spain

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 of Jaén. Jaén was one of the Four Kingdoms of Andalusia

Four Kingdoms of Andalusia

The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, south of the Sierra Morena...

. Its extent is detailed in Respuestas Generales del Catastro de Ensenada

Catastro of Ensenada

In 1749 a large-scale census and statistical investigation was conducted in the Crown of Castile . It included population, territorial properties, buildings, cattle, offices, all kinds of revenue and trades, and even geographical information from each place...

(1750-54), which was part of the documentation of a census.

Like the other kingdoms within Spain, the Kingdom of Jaén was abolished by the 1833 territorial division of Spain

1833 territorial division of Spain

The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided Spain into provinces, classified into "historic regions" . on the official web site of the government of the Canary Islands, accessed 2009-12-31...

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See also

• Jaén, Spain
  Jaén, Spain
  Jaén is a city in south-central Spain, the name is derived from the Arabic word Jayyan, . It is the capital of the province of Jaén. It is located in the autonomous community of Andalusia....
  
  
• :es:Anexo:Localidades del Reino de Jaén, a list of the localities that composed the Kingdom of Jaén, according to the Catastro of Ensenada
  Catastro of Ensenada
  In 1749 a large-scale census and statistical investigation was conducted in the Crown of Castile . It included population, territorial properties, buildings, cattle, offices, all kinds of revenue and trades, and even geographical information from each place...
  
  (1750-54); this page is an appendix to the Spanish-language Wikipedia.